Please don't post flamewar-style comments here.

You've posted a lot of uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments to HN. We ban accounts that do that, so please stop doing that.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13629908 and marked it off-topic.

Aaron died because he killed himself. As far as persecution goes, being a white male is a boon rather than a count against. One data outlier does not an argument make.

Aaron Schwartz was skewered because he made political statements and took action the gov't didn't like while doing something illegal that may have hurt a multinational corporation.

Statistically as white person he's much less likely to be harassed than people of other ethnicities. That is the point the parent was trying to make.